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One For The Birds - I Don't Think I'd Have A Lot Of Variation In Mine. · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: I wonder if Brisbane has come up with their demonstration
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  Speaker 1: sport that they're going to include when they've got the.
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  Speaker 2: Olympics in 2030. The uniquely Australian thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Think, you know, the Olympics just gone.
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  Speaker 1: Think Ray Gunn, the breakdancing kangaroo.
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  Speaker 2: That was their demonstration sport. That went well.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think the kids here might be on to something.
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  Speaker 1: The dying art of bird calling is coming back.
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  Speaker 3: Like the old Violet Crumble ad all those years ago. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: They did better than that.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly that.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, 40 students have just competed in the 2026 Born
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  Speaker 1: to Bird Olympics at Marimbula on.
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  Speaker 2: The New South Wales south coast.
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  Speaker 1: The idea is to revive the art of competitive bird
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  Speaker 1: calling and, of course, learn.
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  Speaker 2: About birds in the process.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be mimicking different birds if you don't know
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  Speaker 1: what they are. It's like hiding vegetables in something cheesy.
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  Speaker 2: In there, you're going to get a lesson in amongst
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  Speaker 2: the fun.
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  Speaker 3: It gets them out, gets them away from the screens.
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  Speaker 2: It does.
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  Speaker 1: Into nature.
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  Speaker 2: It does. It's good fun.
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  Speaker 1: I think they might have been inspired by a young
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  Speaker 1: lad whose name is Samuel, and he's a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a social media star who's very good.
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  Speaker 2: The ring-necked dove. Whoa.
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  Speaker 3: It's just like the ones at my house.
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  Speaker 2: That's the Purple Martin.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, wow. Oh, he's been practising. He's been doing his homework. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: See, my Purple Martin would sound exactly like my Rotel Top.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I'd have a lot of variation in me.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a general squarking.
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  Speaker 1: Students for the Olympics had been training for months in
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  Speaker 1: the lead-up to the event, and the judges took into
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  Speaker 1: account on the day the accuracy of each bird, technique
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  Speaker 1: and tone, but also creativity and courage.
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  Speaker 3: He was good.
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  Speaker 1: Judge Bob Harris admitted it was very difficult to decide
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  Speaker 1: on a winner, but ultimately this year's winner in the
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  Speaker 1: 2026 Born to Bird Olympics is Tathra Public School. They're
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  Speaker 1: on the New South Wales coast somewhere. Look, this is
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  Speaker 1: all well and good, but I think we all know
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  Speaker 1: that no one, hands down, no one, does Australian bird
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  Speaker 1: calls quite like our John Pinder.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's... Although Graham Kennedy might have... He might have
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  Speaker 3: begged to differ if he was still here because Google it, kids.
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  Speaker 3: The famous Graham Kennedy... Crow call on TV. Now, I
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  Speaker 3: would play it to you, but the original live tape
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  Speaker 3: was actually handed over to the Australian Broadcasting Control Board
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  Speaker 3: in 1975 and has apparently been lost.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: Has apparently been lost, but just imagine the crow call
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  Speaker 3: with maybe an extra letter thrown in there. He thought
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  Speaker 3: he could get away with it. And you know, after that,
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  Speaker 3: they stopped him from doing live TV. He was never
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  Speaker 3: allowed to do live TV again.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: Everything had to be pre-recorded because of that. That was
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  Speaker 3: a famous piece of Australian television. Look it up.
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  Speaker 2: History.
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  Speaker 3: Look it up. Look it up. But, of course, the
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  Speaker 3: greatest bird song of all is this one.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.